Protests sour NATO summit

Published: 6 April 2009 y., Monday

Not far from the 60th anniversary celebrations, anti-NATO protesters ran riot in Strasbourg setting fire to a French border post and vandalising other local properties.

 

Šaltinis: Reuters
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